Word: planes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane and train from all over the U. S. gathered the Roosevelt clan, some two dozen strong-with newest grandson, eight-month-old John Roosevelt Boettiger, coming East to take his first look at his famous grandfather. Ready as always was Grandmother Eleanor, her activities for the holiday week scheduled to the minute-six public Christmas tree ceremonies, three religious services, three celebrations in New York City, three separate White House children's parties...
Only way that the Spee could have overcome the British tactic was to get her two planes in the air for reconnoitering. It must have been early in the battle that a lucky British hit stripped to her fuselage the plane perched on the catapult-blocking the catapult so the other plane was also useless, and thus virtually blinding Spee. Despatches by week's end had not made it clear whether the British used their five available planes...
Down went three of the British bombers (according to the British) and five Messerschmitts, before the British ran for home in the growing darkness. Said the British formation leader: "The German planes burned for some time after hitting the water. . . . They looked like enormous beacons. . . . They not only lit up the water but illuminated the sky, which added to the impressiveness of the fight." According to Berlin, 20 British bombers were engaged, ten of them shot down; the German loss was one plane...
...have been abroad that a big newspaper deal would shortly pop up in Atlanta. Last week that rumor ripened into fact. Dayton Publisher James Middleton Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio. Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1920 against Ohio Publisher Warren Gamaliel Harding, stepped from a plane in Atlanta to announce that he had bought two papers: the Atlanta Journal and William Randolph Hearst's Atlanta Georgian. With them he got the Journal's 50,000-watt radio station, WTSB, and a 40% interest in another, less important transmitter, WAGA...
...approaching each French outpost in separate columns or files, to bomb it with grenades from three sides simultaneously. These raids, by seasoned troops, were interpreted by the French as "information please" parties (TIME, Nov. 27), to take the place of air reconnaissance which lately cost the Germans many a plane.* But the French took no chance on letting the scouts hold ground close up to their forward positions, which might prelude a general attack...